FATHER | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of father in English fathernoun [ C ] uk /ˈfɑː.ðər/ us /ˈfɑː.ðɚ/

father noun [C] (PARENT)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 a male parent: My father took me to watch the football every Saturday. The children's father came to pick them up from school. [ as form of address ] formal or old-fashioned Please may I go, Father? your parents

• parentMy parents died when I was young.
• biological parentSome children are raised by grandparents or other family members, instead of their biological parents.
• adoptive parentWhen he was 7 months old, his mother gave him up to his adoptive parents.
• motherHave you met my mother?
• fatherMy father fully supports my life choices.
• mumUK My mum and dad go there every year.

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• My father sends his greetings.
• She idolized her father.
• Tell your father I was asking after him.
• She's nearly as tall as her father now.
• She spoke of her sadness over her father's death.

Family: relations in general

• anti-family
• aunt
• auntie
• baby daddy
• baby mama
• family life
• family man
• family of something
• father complex
• fatherhood
• kinship
• kinship network
• kinship term
• kinsman
• kinswoman
• relationally
• relationship
• relative
• removed
• second cousin

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father noun [C] (IN RELIGION)

(also Father, written abbreviation Fr) (the title of) a Christian priest, especially a Roman Catholic or Orthodox priest: Father O'Reilly [ as form of address ] Are you giving a sermon, Father? (also Father) a name for the Christian God: God the Father Our Father, who art in heaven... Religious titles

• beadle
• brother
• eminence
• Fr.
• grace
• holiness
• metropolitan
• mother
• mother superior
• Msgr
• pandit
• pope
• rev
• right
• S, s
• saint
• st
• swami
• venerable

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Idiom

the father of something fatherverb [ T ] uk /ˈfɑː.ðər/ us /ˈfɑː.ðɚ/ to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant: He's fathered three children. Synonym sire Breeds & breeding

• American bully
• beget
• breeder
• breeding ground
• brood mare
• full-blooded
• heritage
• heritage breed
• inbred
• inbreeding
• overbreed
• pedigree
• pedigreed
• puppy farm
• puppy farming
• selective breeding
• sire
• teaser
• thoroughbred
• well bred

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father | American Dictionary

fathernoun [ C ] us /ˈfɑð·ər/ Add to word list Add to word list a male parent: My father retired seven years ago.  the father of If you describe a man as the father of something, you mean that he began it, or first made it important: Freud was the father of psychoanalysis. (also Father) The title Father is used by a Christian priest, esp. a Roman Catholic, Episcopal, or Orthodox priest: Father Randall Are you giving a sermon, Father?

fatherhood

noun [ U ] us /ˈfɑð·ərˌhʊd/ Fatherhood is a lifelong responsibility. fatherverb [ T ] us/ˈfɑð·ər/ to become a father by causing a woman to produce a child: to father twins (Definition of father from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of father?

Translations of father

in Chinese (Traditional) 父親，爸爸, （尤指天主教或東正教的）神父, 天父，上帝… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 父亲，爸爸, （尤指天主教或东正教的）神父, 天父，上帝… See more in Spanish padre, sacerdote, Padre… See more in Portuguese pai, padre, Pai… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian वडील /बाबा - पुरुष पालक… See more 父, お父さん, 父親（ちちおや）… See more baba, baba olmak, papaz… See more père [masculine], père, Père… See more pare… See more vader, pater, grondlegger… See more ஒரு ஆண் பெற்றோர்… See more पिता… See more પિતા… See more far, fader, pater… See more far, fader, pater… See more bapa, paderi, menjadi bapa… See more der Vater, der Pater, der Urheber… See more far [masculine], far, Fader… See more باپ, والد… See more батько, батюшка, родоначальник… See more বাবা, পিতা… See more otec, zplodit, být otcem… See more ayah, Romo, bapak… See more บิดา, พระในศาสนาคริสต์, ผู้ริเริ่ม… See more cha, bố, cha cố… See more ojciec, być ojcem, spłodzić… See more 아버지… See more padre, Padre, fare da padre… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of father

• father figure
• founding father
• Our Father
• father complex
• working mother/father/parent
• Father Christmas
• father confessor

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• lone parent/mother/father phrase
• someone's natural mother/father/parent phrase
• the father of something idiom
• when someone was a (mere) twinkle in their father's eye idiom

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    • father (PARENT)
    • father (IN RELIGION)
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    • father
    • the father of
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    • fatherhood
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